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[Aaron Wells <1160093@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, it was sorta buggy, if you did this:

1. Set up two auth instances that can take an external username
2. Assign a user to one of them, and give them an external username in that auth.
3. Save.
4. Now, go to the user's account settings page, and switch them to the other external auth

Expected Result: External username field on the page should be empty, because the user doesn't have an external username registered with this auth yet
Actual Result: The external username field on the page is NOT empty, but continues to show the external username for the first auth.

That's because the code didn't bother switching the field to blank, if
there was no username stored.

It's handy to have it populate the stored username from the author auth
automatically. But I think it's handier to tell users the truth, and
only show them data in that form field if there actually is
corresponding data in the auth_remote_user table. So I'll add this to my
patch also.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1160093

Title:
  Don't display a remote username on /admin/users/edit.php if no remote
  username exists

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Per default, Mahara displays the "Username for external
  authentication" on the user account admin page no matter whether the
  account has actually set a remoteuser value or not. This is confusing
  when you want to check if an auth instance works correctly because you
  will have to check the database (in 2 different places) or at least do
  a user report which pulls the remotuser value from the "correct" DB
  table.

  Mahara should only display a remoteuser if it really exists.

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